Patrick Cloud Presentations & Publications
Presentations
"Motorized Vehicles: Liability & Coverage Issues," PLRB Claims Conference & Insurance Services Expo (2023)
"Passage and Development of the Insurance Placement Liability Act," Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel Online Seminar (2019)
"Darkness Falls: Exposure to Extracontractual Liability," Heyl Royster's 33rd Annual Claims Handling Seminar (2018)
"Independent Counsel and the Ethics of the Tripartite Relationship," Insurance Coverage Institute: Downstate (2018)
"Off the Field: Insurance Coverage Issues," Heyl Royster's 32nd Annual Claims Handling Seminar (2017)
"Working Through Not-So-Common Coverage Issues," Heyl Royster's 31st Annual Claims Handling Seminar (2016)
"Recent Developments in Insurance Coverage," Heyl Royster’s 30th Annual Claims Handling Seminar (2015)
"The Insurance Jungle – Navigating Your Way to Successful Results," Moderator, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, St. Louis, Missouri (2015)
"Uncertainty Piled Onto Confusion: Jury Instructions In Construction Cases After Ramirez v. FCL Builders," IDC 2015 Statewide CLE Series, Edwardsville, Illinois (2015)
"Handling Insurance Coverage Disputes," Moderator, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Bloomington, Illinois (2014)
"Insurance Coverage Update," Heyl Royster Claims Handling Seminar (2010-2014)
"Personal Auto Policy: The Fundamentals," PLRB/LIRB Claims Conference & Insurance Services Expo, Orlando, Florida (2012)
"Personal Auto Policy: The Fundamentals," PLRB/LIRB Claims Conference & Insurance Services Expo, Nashville, TN (2011)
Publications
"Intentional Act Exclusion," chapter in Commercial and Professional Liability Insurance Practice Handbook, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education Handbook (2014, 2019, 2023)
“Section 155 Necessitates A Separate Action on the Policy,” Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly (2022)
"Equitable Contribution versus Equitable Subrogation: A Brief Overview," Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly (2021)
"An Insured Does Not Control Its Insurer," Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (2020)
"Rise of the Machines: Cyber-Based Liability and Its Attendant Coverage Questions," Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly Monograph (2020)
"The Insurance Placement Liability Act After Skaperdas v. Country Casualty Insurance Company," Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly (2019)
"Insurer Exposure to Extracontractual Liability: An Overview," Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly Monograph (2018)
"An Examination of Reasonableness Requirements for Settlements by Insureds: Central Mutual Insurance Company v. Tracy's Treasures, Inc.," Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly (2018)
"Settling Without Consent: The When and The How," FDCC Insights, A Journal for Defense and Corporate Counsel (2016)
"Additional Limits to the Targeted Tender Doctrine: AMCO Insurance Co. v. Cincinnati Insurance Co.," Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly (2015)
"Survey of Insurance Law Cases," Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel's 2013 Survey of Law (2014)
"Unintended Consequences of Additional Insured Endorsements: Coverage for an Additional Insured Where the Claim Arose from the Named Insured's Professional Services," Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly (2013)
"In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time: Defense Counsel as Ethically Challenged or Merely in a Position where Appearance of Impropriety Exists when Insurer and Insured have Conflict of Interest?" Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly Monograph (2012)
"Bankruptcy and Insured versus Insured Exclusions Did Not Apply to Claims by Trustee against Company Directors," IDC Defense Update, Vol. 12, No. 15 (2011)
"Equitable Subrogation and Reimbursement Did Not Apply to a Self-Insured Municipality," IDC Defense Update, Vol. 12, No. 15 (2011)
"Amount of Coverage for Series of Related Legal Malpractice Claims Limited to 'Each Claim' Limit of Liability," IDC Defense Update, Vol. 12, No. 15 (2011)
"Survey of Illinois Law: Employment Law," Southern Illinois University Law Journal (2010)
